I'm a bit tired tonight thus alas, I have to postpone a post that I have been wanting to write on, namely, the relationship between DAP and PKR in a currently shaky coalition. So tonight's post is a sort of primer on that.
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My proposed but now delayed essay is all the more relevant in the wake of unmitigated turbulent relationship between DAP and PKR in Sarawak, manifested recently as a shameless squabble of unseemly undignified behaviour.
This was also preceded by PKR-ista Nathaniel Tan's Malaysiakini article, one with shameless untruths, against Lim Guan Eng - see my letter to Malaysiakini titled Nathaniel Tan’s cherry-picking and missing the elephant in the room, which attempted to convince us and DAP and Pakatan to limit Lim GE's terms as Penang's CM while ignoring Zambry Abdul Kadir's terms as MB Perak, nor made any mention of Mahathir's 22-year rule as PM - in fact, on the last, namely Mahathir, Nathaniel Tan studiously avoided any mention of the reign of our eminent grise, the nation's terrifying Grand Olde Man.
Nathaniel Tan also predicted that Lim GE would not name Teh Yee Cheu as a candidate anywhere for anything for the next elections, because Teh had apparently violated DAP party discipline. Yet Nathaniel Tan has not made even a teeny weeny lil' old squeak about Pak Haji Hadi Awang booting poor Husam Musa out of PAS on grounds that Husam violated party discipline.
Yes indeed, why has Nathaniel Tan been so concerned about DAP's Teh Yee Cheu for violating DAP party discipline (bucking the party's whip) but has totally ignored the plight of Husam Musa for the same allegations of allegedly committing the same offence.
And what more, PKR has (once again) unilaterally invited PAS to join or, if you like, rejoin Pakatan when it knows fully well PAS and DAP are irreconcilable.
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My proposed but now delayed essay is all the more relevant in the wake of unmitigated turbulent relationship between DAP and PKR in Sarawak, manifested recently as a shameless squabble of unseemly undignified behaviour.
This was also preceded by PKR-ista Nathaniel Tan's Malaysiakini article, one with shameless untruths, against Lim Guan Eng - see my letter to Malaysiakini titled Nathaniel Tan’s cherry-picking and missing the elephant in the room, which attempted to convince us and DAP and Pakatan to limit Lim GE's terms as Penang's CM while ignoring Zambry Abdul Kadir's terms as MB Perak, nor made any mention of Mahathir's 22-year rule as PM - in fact, on the last, namely Mahathir, Nathaniel Tan studiously avoided any mention of the reign of our eminent grise, the nation's terrifying Grand Olde Man.
Nathaniel Tan also predicted that Lim GE would not name Teh Yee Cheu as a candidate anywhere for anything for the next elections, because Teh had apparently violated DAP party discipline. Yet Nathaniel Tan has not made even a teeny weeny lil' old squeak about Pak Haji Hadi Awang booting poor Husam Musa out of PAS on grounds that Husam violated party discipline.
Yes indeed, why has Nathaniel Tan been so concerned about DAP's Teh Yee Cheu for violating DAP party discipline (bucking the party's whip) but has totally ignored the plight of Husam Musa for the same allegations of allegedly committing the same offence.
And what more, PKR has (once again) unilaterally invited PAS to join or, if you like, rejoin Pakatan when it knows fully well PAS and DAP are irreconcilable.
So, has PKR been taunting DAP ala "WTF can you do about it. Toe my ketuanan f**king line or come get me if you dare!"?
On top of all the above, we now hear implicit sinister threats from the pompous Penang PKR infamous 5 ADUN rebels who had in the previous DUN session refused to support their own coalition policy, giving the bullshit about 'vote of conscience' or its alternative, abstention.
Their latest dire warning to the DAP-PKR state government is that they may not abstain this time when UMNO re-invokes the more or less same topic, namely, to “... cancel reclamation works involving some 4,000 acres at the south of Penang Island and seek alternative financing for the RM27 billion Penang Transport Master Plan”.
FMT reports: Bukit Tengah assemblyman and PKR chief whip Ong Chin Wen said “nothing has been decided” and they will only do so when the debate commences.
“That one … I will reserve comments. We will wait until the debate,” he said when reporters asked if the PKR 5 will abstain from voting again.
Ong said their stand on the previous abstention on an Umno motion remained.
“That one … I will reserve comments. We will wait until the debate,” he said when reporters asked if the PKR 5 will abstain from voting again.
Ong said their stand on the previous abstention on an Umno motion remained.
This is sheer f**king nonsense. When one is a member of a coalition (or a party) one cannot do what one likes on a matter of coalition policy. And that has been why the DAP supported PKR's unilaterally initiated Kajang Manoeuvre though it was initially in the dark.
Thus there is no f**king excuse for such a recalcitrant statement like “nothing has been decided” and they will only do so when the debate commences. That one … I will reserve comments. We will wait until the debate.”
What has been shamefully astonishing is that PKR ADUN like Ong Chin Wen, ironically his party whip (which makes his previous obstinate rebellion against coalition development policy a bizarre political incongruity), still doesn't understand what had been the significance of his and his rebel colleagues' abstention in an UMNO motion during the last DUN session. UMNO had then moved a motion against against the Pakatan State government's project.
Thus there is no f**king excuse for such a recalcitrant statement like “nothing has been decided” and they will only do so when the debate commences. That one … I will reserve comments. We will wait until the debate.”
What has been shamefully astonishing is that PKR ADUN like Ong Chin Wen, ironically his party whip (which makes his previous obstinate rebellion against coalition development policy a bizarre political incongruity), still doesn't understand what had been the significance of his and his rebel colleagues' abstention in an UMNO motion during the last DUN session. UMNO had then moved a motion against against the Pakatan State government's project.
But then, maybe he did!
Nor it seems those 5 understand the so-called 'vote of conscience' by an ADUN or MP against one's own party or coalition.
But wait, maybe they do!
It's not just in Malaysia but elsewhere and everywhere in the Commonwealth nations which practise Westminster parliamentary party procedures, that party protocol does not permit vote of conscience for administrative-operating issues such as (examples) government's proposed budget, environmental policies, education, land reclamation, development of the nation/state, recognition of country X (say Israel), etc.
Votes of conscience are permitted, but then only when the coalition whip publicly (and not by stealth) allows so, on issues such as, just a couple of examples on conscience issues, capital punishment and same sex marriage.
If those 5 PKR ADUN don't understand the necessity of standing behind one's own party/coalition on administrative-operating policies and issues, then they shouldn't be part of the coalition and therefore should resign from the coalition and become Independents, and only then buat suka sendiri, to wit, to vote for or against what they personally like.
Thus, by their current warning of 'uncertainty' on their stand vis-a-vis their own coalition state government's policies, we can only read that to mean those PKR ADUN rebels will likely vote alongside UMNO or at best, abstain again.
It's an arrogant recalcitrant open threat for Lim GE and their own DAP-PKR state government. It is inescapably an open declaration of war by those 5 against CM Lim GE and the state government.
But are they being individually obstinate?
I personally don't think so. Let's work our way up their echelon-ladder and see what could be possibly the reason.
In the wake of PKR treachery against the DAP in Sarawak, deliberately dishonouring their own party president's signature on a pre-election agreement with the DAP on seat sharing/allocation, we are compelled to wonder and to ask:
... have they been encouraged and egged on to rebel against Lim GE's government by the same PKR leadership team that had encouraged and egged on Baru Bian to treacherously dishonour Dr Wan's agreement signed between the DAP on seats allocation in the recent Sarawak state elections?
Is there a covert ops to destabilize the Penang state government?
The snakes are now crawling out in full wriggly form.
